Word: governors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understand . . . that the Governor [Alfred E. Smith] in casting those votes against those reform bills [touching gambling and the facilities for prostitution] might honestly have felt that the bills were unconstitutional or were not enforceable or infringed on personal liberty or encouraged police blackmail...
...Organized, protected prostitution is quickly passing out of American life and that issue is not vital. But vital or not, I could not in good conscience press this issue, realizing that Governor Smith, whom I greatly admire for his many high qualities, feels that my charges question the purity of his motives...
...Peek," of course, was George Nelson Peek, the Democrat-Republican from Illinois who used to make plows at Moline, Ill.; who served Woodrow Wilson on the War Industries Board; who became chairman of the Committee of Twenty-two organized several years ago by Governor Hammill (Republican) of Iowa† and other Farmers' Friends; and who lobbied the McNary-Haugen Bill (first version) through Congress from a desk in Vice President Dawes' ante-room...
...Coolidge to veto the McNary-Haugen bill. Later, he telegraphed the President his approval of the veto. When Senator Fess talked on farming at the Republican Convention, he used many of Mr. Yoakum's most comprehensive phrases. Senator Borah used the Yoakum farm figures. When Nebraska's governor, plump Adam McMullen, repudiated his own "farmers crusade" last June, it was after he had received a telegram from Mr. Yoakum...
...June evening that the Democrats of the land were nominating New York's wet Governor for President, those whose duty it is to enforce Prohibition in the land consummated a multilateral raid, said to be the result of months of preparation, on 18 of New York City's flashiest, dashiest, most expensive nightclubs (TIME, July 9). Last week, 45 more of the district's 20,000-odd nightclubs and speakeasies were proceeded against. Also, last week, the persons made defendants by the first raids were indicted. The Federal activity began to spread to roadhouses in New York...